Gender and Song in Early Modern England

Contents

• Contents: Introduction, Leslie C. Dunn and Katherine R. Larson
• Performing women in English books of Ayres, Scott A. Trudell
• Witches, lamenting women, and cautionary tales: tracing 'The Ladies Fall' in early modern English broadside balladry and popular song, Sarah F. Williams
• Listening to black magic women: the early modern soundscapes of witch drama and the New World, Jennifer Linhart Wood
• 'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit': song, fooling, and intellectual disability in Shakespearean drama, Angela Heetderks
• Dangerous performance: Cupid in early modern pedagogical masques, Amanda Eubanks Winkler
• Making music fit for kings: reforming and gendering music in Samuel Rowley's When You See Me, You Know Me, Joseph M. Ortiz
• Unimportant women: the 'sweet descants' of Mary Sidney and Richard Crashaw, Tessie L. Prakas
• Domestic song and the circulation of masculine social energy in early modern England, Linda Phyllis Austern
• Song, political resistance, and masculinity in Thomas Heywood's The Rape of Lucrece, Nora L. Corrigan
• Music for Helen: the fitful changes of Troilus and Cressida, Erin Minear
• The use of early modern music in film scoring for Elizabeth I, Kendra Preston Leonard
• Select bibliography
• Index.